{"id":3409,"date":"2013-08-01T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2013-08-01T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T07:00:42","slug":"the-weather-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/08\/01\/the-weather-is-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"The weather is beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cutting-hay\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With temperatures back in the “perfect” seventies, we have a lot more energy. Will took the newly put-back-together Oliver over to cut hay this morning to give it a trial run. He ran it around the place a little soon after getting the motor and clutch back in but wanted to really give it a “for real” test. I just got back from there and everything seems perfect, including the hay, which is thick clover and grass. Mmmmm, and it’s not supposed to rain for four days. He wants to try our round baler on the Oliver but he cut just enough hay so that if something’s not right, we can square bale it without too much fuss. (But I do want a few square bales from that field to feed the goats and horses to supplement their pasture.)<\/p>\n

\"Garden-so-far\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The garden is growing like mad. Although it’s late in the season, it’s working hard to catch up. I’ve never had bigger broccoli! The leaves are waist high. And it hasn’t even started to head yet. I can’t wait. The corn is starting to tassel and tomatoes are getting bigger, although they’re not showing yellow, prior to red yet. But there’s lots of them!<\/p>\n

\"Broccoli-leaves\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Our little seven baby pigs are doing fine and starting to run around outside, sampling clover and whatever it is that piggies snack on in the pasture. Two are sold already. A man who bought two of our pigs last fall was so impressed with their taste that he definitely wanted MORE. That makes us feel good. We think our Red Wattle pork tastes great too and both Will and I have raised pigs before this.<\/p>\n

\"lilies\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve got to go churn butter so have a great day! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With temperatures back in the “perfect” seventies, we have a lot more energy. Will took the newly put-back-together Oliver over to cut hay this morning to give it a trial run. He ran it around the place a little soon after getting the motor and clutch back in but wanted to really give it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}